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1/4 Mohar - Jaya Prakash Malla
| Issuer | Kathmandu Kingdom |
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| Year | 1736 |
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| Diameter | 17 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylized trishula (trident) flanked by Nepalese script characters arranged in the four quadrants, forming a cross-like composition. The legends, rendered in Pracalit script, are distributed around the central device. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. The execution is characteristic of the hammered coinage produced under the Malla dynasty of Kathmandu. |
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| Reverse script | Pracalit |
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Jaya Prakash Malla ruled Kathmandu during the final turbulent decades of the Malla dynasty, a period of near-constant conflict among the three rival valley kingdoms of Kathmandu, Patan, and Bhaktapur. He made the catastrophic political miscalculation of appealing to Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha for military assistance against his neighbors — effectively inviting in the force that would extinguish his own dynasty. Kathmandu fell in 1768, and Jaya Prakash fled to Patan, dying shortly after its capture.
Silver fractional issues from his reign are poorly documented in terms of die varieties, but surviving examples tend to show uneven flan preparation consistent with the small workshops supplying the Kathmandu mint at mid-century.